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Related: About this forumRaising our voices in protest now equals violence?
So we are supposed to protest in silence because it upset your sensibilities?
Do you realize how weak that sounds?
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Raising our voices in protest now equals violence? (Original Post)
Skwmom
May 2016
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Dem2
(8,168 posts)1. Somebody is pissed.
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)7. you are right...Hillary is pissed at her delayed coronation.
YouDig
(2,280 posts)2. Protest all you want. Just hold back with the death threats, sexist slurs, and chairs.
And if you are an invited delegate to a convention that is being paid for by the Democratic Party, don't get trashed at the bar and disrupt the proceedings. And if you do that, don't blame the bar, blame yourself.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)4. Evidence that Bernie supporters did any of this?
Merryland
(1,134 posts)6. if this isn't bs, there need to be police reports - do you have them handy?
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)9. If Hillary supporters would stop assaulting us that would be great....
Hillary can't afford to have all of her voters in jail.
Merryland
(1,134 posts)3. We're in a revolution
and maybe - God, I hate this cliche but...paradigm shift?
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)10. Likely we are. Change does not come easy, generally, in the US. n/t
Merryland
(1,134 posts)12. I think we need to start treating THEM as outsiders.
I'm sick of their bs.
timmymoff
(1,947 posts)5. The Hillarities are rather Orwellian in their descriptions.
Skwmom
(12,685 posts)11. They also reinforce sterotypes of women as weak.
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)8. Also, look at what was done to OWS. If you don't follow the indoctrination, you're
labeled as a violent protester.